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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-27
pubmed:abstractText
The 2.311 kb EcoRI F fragment of bacteriophage MB78 has been cloned in multicopy vectors pUC19 and pCR90. Salmonella typhimurium strains carrying such plasmids cannot support development of phage MB78 while other Salmonella phages like P22 and 9NA grow normally. Most of the phage MB78 induced functions are normal in such transformed hosts but proper maturation of the phage particles does not take place. Deletion of 138 bp from the 3' end of the cloned fragment reverses the inhibitory effect. Analysis of nucleotide and the deduced amino acid sequence of a 1.2 kb HindIII-SalI fragment of the phage genome which overlaps the 138 bp confirms that this part contains the upstream regulatory region of the major structural protein gene. It seems that in presence of multiple copies of the upstream regulatory region (which includes a number of promoter like sequence) of the coat protein gene, the maturase gene is down regulated and this is effective only in cis, a situation quite similar to that of Qbeta RNA phages.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0920-8569
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
151-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Multiple copies of the upstream regulatory region of the major capsid protein gene of bacteriophage MB78 inhibit phage morphogenesis.
pubmed:affiliation
Molecular Biology Unit, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, India.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't